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		<title>Iranian Women After The Islamic Revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dr Ansiah Khaz Ali
The fourth in a series of Monographs on gender discourse and Islamist perspectives on feminism to be published by Conflicts Forum.
Follow this link to download the fourth Monograph.
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		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2010/iranian-women-after-the-islamic-revolution/</link>
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		<title>Feminism Between Secularism and Islamism: The Case of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dr Islah Jad
The third in a series of Monographs on gender discourse and Islamist perspectives on feminism to be published by Conflicts Forum.
Follow this link  to download the third Monograph.
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		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2010/feminism-between-secularism-and-islamism-the-case-of-palestine-west-bank-and-gaza/</link>
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		<title>Iran and the end of Deference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke 
Article first published on Middle East Channel, foreignpolicy.com, June 2010
The additional sanctions which the Security Council imposed on Iran earlier this month, and the additional sanctions which the United States Congress passed last Thursday, make no sense in terms of policy coherence. No one really believes sanctions will force a change in Iranian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2010/iran-and-the-end-of-deference/</link>
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		<title>The Shifting Sands of State Power in the Middle East</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke 
Article first published on The Washington Quarterly, June 2010
In his commendably candid interview with Time in January 2010, President Barack Obama noted that managing politics in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict “is just really hard.” The president, however, might well have been speaking about the Middle East as a whole. It is not just the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2010/the-shifting-sands-of-state-power-in-the-middle-east/</link>
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		<title>Gender Discourse and Islamist Perspectives on Feminism: second Monograph out now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The second in a series of Monographs on gender discourse and Islamist perspectives on feminism to be published by Conflicts Forum.
Follow this link to download the second Monograph, &#8216;A Study on Women in Islam: An Islamic Vision of Women From the Viewpoint of Contemporary Shi’i Scholars in Lebanon&#8217;.
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		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2010/gender-discourse-and-islamist-perceptives-on-feminism-second-monograph-out-now/</link>
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		<title>After the Israeli flotilla incident, Turkey is the new Palestinian champion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke 
Article first published on The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times
June 3, 2010
Beirut, Lebanon
“This is language that we have not heard since the time of Gamal Abdul Nasser.” Thus wrote the influential chief editor of Al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper, referring to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s fiery response to the Israeli [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2010/after-the-israeli-flotilla-incident-turkey-is-the-new-palestinian-champion/</link>
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		<title>Gender Discourse and Islamist Perspectives on Feminism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first in a series of Monographs on gender discourse and Islamist perspectives on feminism that will be published by Conflicts Forum.
Follow this link to download the first Monograph, &#8216;Islamist Women’s Activism in Occupied Paletine, parts I and II&#8217;
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		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2010/gender-discourse-and-islamist-perceptives-on-feminism/</link>
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		<title>Evolving Currents in Salafism and Shi’ism: ‘The function of transmitted knowledge and of intellectual knowledge within the Islamic revival’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Conflicts Forum&#8217;s latest Monograph, from a meeting held in Beirut, May 2009
The papers published here in this small volume are from a meeting held in May 2009 which looked at evolving currents in Salafism and Shi’ism. The purpose of the meeting was to address the future – and what this imminent future might bring to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2010/evolving-currents-in-salafism-shism/</link>
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		<title>Imposing Middle East Peace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Henry Siegman
Report published by the Norwegian Peace-Building Centre
The continued expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank seems to have finally locked in the permanence of Israel’s colonial project. Israel has crossed the threshold from the Middle East’s only democracy to the only “apartheid regime” in the Western world. But outside intervention may offer the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2010/imposing-middle-east-peace/</link>
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		<title>Giving ‘engagement’ a bad name: Obama’s Iran policy at one year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
The first anniversary of Barack Obama’s inauguration as President of the United States came this week. The sharpest criticism of Obama’s first-year record on domestic and economic affairs came from the Nobel prize-winning economist, New York Times columnist, and Princeton professor Paul Krugman.

This line from Krugman encapsulates the concern many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2010/giving-%e2%80%98engagement%e2%80%99-a-bad-name-obama%e2%80%99s-iran-policy-at-one-year/</link>
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